Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connections increased by 4% between December 2013 and December 2014 from 4.9 to 5.1 million connections.

In percentage terms,fibre continues to be the fastest growing type of internet connection, increasing by 94% since the end of December 2013, to 324,000 connections at the end of December 2014.

Internet subscribers by type of access connection(a), for ISPs with more than 1,000 subscribers

Dec 2013

Jun 2014

Dec 2014

'000

'000

'000

Dial-up connections

205

182

159

Broadband connections

DSL

4 898

5 065

5 099

Cable

944

946

966

Fibre

167

203

324

Satellite

91

80

75

Fixed wireless

48

50

67

Mobile wireless

6 040

5 954

5 996

Other

3

2

5

All broadband connections

12 192

12 300

12 532

Total number of subscribers

12 397

12 483

12 691

(a) Dial-up and broadband figures reported by type of access connection may not equal figures collected by advertised download speeds, due to some broadband connections being reported as less than 256kbps.

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